City acquires diverse equipment for utilities and services
The city has bought an aerial lift for the light plant line crew and a power plant line truck with an auger for pole installations. A new billing and posting machine for the city clerk’s office will handle data on tape. A tapping machine allows cutting into water mains with minimal service disruption. A police car was purchased this spring for rotation, and the fire department’s new quint fire truck is over a year old at $45,000.
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Electric Department
West 7Th
R. J. Hayes
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital
Hayes
Fire Department
Third Overflow Dam Insures Water Supply for Chanute
Construction of a third overflow dam on the Neosho River at Brown Wells ford northeast of Chanute aims to secure a multi year water supply. The $42,583.50 bid contract was awarded to Walter Poor on April 16 with completion expected in July or August. The Brown Wells project, part of a 1958 bond program, adds to Ditmars and Barker dams and expands storage by about 133 million gallons with total three dam capacity around 425.76 million gallons, supporting a projected 850 million gallons per year.
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Neosho River
Brown Wells Ford
Neosho
Chanute
Walter Poor
Barker Dam
Ditmars
Barker
Ash Grove
John Redmond
Burlington
Redmond
Brown Wells
Chanute Water Plant Marks 62 Years With Few Failures
The Chanute water plant has operated continuously for 62 years with only one shutdown, caused by the 1951 record flood that stopped the works, the first since 1898. The new plant aims to virtually prevent another complete outage.
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Chanute
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Paul Hinrichs
Gas and Water Department
Ditmars Ford
Wilbur Moffatt
George Eaton
Nitmare Dam
Merreers
The
Chanute Tribune
Redmond Reservoir
Paschal Grimes
Ditmarsford
Barker Riffle
Brown Wells Dam
Carl Wortman
City Water
Don Briggs
City
Ralph Burghart
Randall Diver
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